VBScript Jobs

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VBScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VBScript over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 662 972
Rank change year-on-year -100 +310 -87
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 38 113 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.46% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20 77 167
10th Percentile £34,000 £45,100 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £48,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £56,525 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £74,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,050 £73,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,525 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.05% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,585 24,632 71,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 40.58% 49.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,724 19,128 38,958
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 10 October 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -101 33 £57,025 -0.83% 19
UK excluding London -74 29 £50,000 -11.54% 12
Work from Home -15 18 £56,525 -5.79% 6
South East -85 15 £56,525 -23.10% 4
London +14 9 £95,000 +46.15% 9
North of England +6 6 £35,750 -10.63% 3
Scotland +7 5 £48,750 -6.25% 1
North West - 4 £34,000 - 1
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire +35 1 £47,500 +18.75%
North East - 1 £37,500 - 2
South West - 1 £50,000 -

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (28.95%) Entra ID
3 10 (26.32%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (26.32%) Azure Storage
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Intacct
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) AWS
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (50.00%) DHCP
1 19 (50.00%) DNS
2 12 (31.58%) Firewall
3 7 (18.42%) VPN
4 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.89%) LAN
5 3 (7.89%) WAN
6 2 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.26%) Informix
5 2 (5.26%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) HP UFT
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (5.26%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.63%) AdminStudio
3 1 (2.63%) MSI
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Active Directory Specialist
1 10 (26.32%) Active Directory Support
1 10 (26.32%) Azure Specialist
1 10 (26.32%) Support Specialist
2 6 (15.79%) IT Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) SCCM Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Data Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) IT Support
6 2 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Programmer
6 2 (5.26%) Trainee
6 2 (5.26%) Trainee Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) ARM Templates
2 4 (10.53%) jQuery
3 3 (7.89%) HTML
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.26%) Classic ASP
4 2 (5.26%) HTML5
4 2 (5.26%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (5.26%) WSH
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (26.32%) PKI
3 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Clustering
4 2 (5.26%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (73.68%) Windows
2 15 (39.47%) Windows Server
3 13 (34.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (28.95%) Linux
5 11 (28.95%) Windows 10
6 8 (21.05%) Windows 7
7 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (5.26%) Unix
8 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.63%) SUSE
9 1 (2.63%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) ITIL
2 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 14 (36.84%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) RBAC
4 10 (26.32%) Analytics
4 10 (26.32%) Identity Management
4 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (26.32%) Log Analytics
4 10 (26.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 10 (26.32%) Privileged Identity Management
4 10 (26.32%) Release Management
4 10 (26.32%) Service Management
5 9 (23.68%) Application Virtualisation
6 8 (21.05%) Patch Management
7 6 (15.79%) Application Packaging
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.16%) Asset Management
8 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) PowerShell
2 17 (44.74%) VB
3 13 (34.21%) C#
4 10 (26.32%) Bicep
4 10 (26.32%) SQL
5 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.89%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) Formula Language
7 1 (2.63%) Python
7 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Degree
2 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) DV Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
4 10 (26.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (26.32%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (26.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (52.63%) SCCM
2 15 (39.47%) WSUS
3 11 (28.95%) SCOM
4 10 (26.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (13.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (2.63%) Terraform
6 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Citrix
3 5 (13.16%) Altiris
4 3 (7.89%) VMware
5 2 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) Sage
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft